tight

Meaning

1. Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
2. Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
3. (colloquial) Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
4. (colloquial) Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
5. (slang) Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
6. Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
7. Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
8. Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
9. Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
10. Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
11. Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
12. Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
13. (slang) Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk.
14. (slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
15. (slang) Mean; unfair; unkind.
16. Limited or restricted.
17. (obsolete) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
18. (obsolete) Handy; adroit; brisk.
19. Of a player, who plays very few hands.
20. Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
21. (informal) Intimate, close, close-knit.
22. (slang) A car with understeer, primarily used to describe NASCAR stock cars.
23. Angry or irritated.
24. (slang) still intact due to her still being a virgin.

narrow

taut

very tight

too tight

be tight

pressed in

too small

become tight

set up hard

tie knot

form fitting

be stiff

fit for sea

hard up

pull tight

scrimy

tie tightly

tightly closed

tightly knit

leaktight

ill-off

not loose

to be

cheese-paring

get stuck

hardfisted

air proof

nervous

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/taɪt/

From Middle English tight, tyght, tyȝt, tiht, variants of thight, thiht, from Old English *þiht, *þīht (attested in meteþiht), from Proto-West Germanic *þį̄ht(ī), from Proto-Germanic *þinhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tenkt- (“dense, thick, tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, pull”). Cognate with Scots ticht, West Frisian ticht, Danish tæt, Icelandic þéttur (“dense”), Norwegian tett, Swedish tät, Dutch dicht (“dense”), German dicht (“dense”).